LUconn wrote:I was there for the last kid that won the Nissan Truck. He had to win a few races against other students and then make a 30 (or possibly 40) yarder. It was crazy when he did it. Apparenlty they decided that was too easy to win a vehicle. The odds of this are better than the one for bball though. Make a FT, a 3PT and if you're decent enough of a player to do that, you have to make the halfcourt shot as well.
Yeah, A.C. is a friend of mine. He knew for a about a month that he was going to have a shot at the 40 yarder, so he went out, got a ball and started practicing. He had a little bit of a soccer background and he got a few tips from whoever the kicker on the team was at that point, but for the most part, he just figured it out. I spent a couple of afternoons with him shagging his attempts. The money kick in the game was great...there was about a 25 mph tailwind and the thing barely snuck through the bottom left corner of the uprights. If I remember correctly, there were about 1,000 people in the stands for that game.